Day and night, shadows and sundials, sentence 1

The Earth spins once about every 24 hours, like a ball spun on a finger, and the half facing the Sun has day while the other half has night.

Who acts: Earth, half, other half · What happens: spin, face, have · To what, where: ball, finger, Sun

This is a sentence of the lesson «Day and night, shadows and sundials» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Earth, half, other half), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Earth	det
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 spins	nsubj
3	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 spins	advmod
5	about	about	ADV	_	7 24	advmod
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 24	det
7	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 hours	nummod
8	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spins	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ball	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 ball	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ball	det
12	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spins	obl
13	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 ball	acl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 finger	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 finger	det
16	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spun	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 has	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 has	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 half	det
20	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	24 has	nsubj
21	facing	face	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 half	acl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Sun	det
23	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 facing	obj
24	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 spins	conj
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 has	obj
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 has	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 half	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 half	amod
29	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	30 has	nsubj
30	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 has	advcl
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 has	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spins	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	present	the Earth				hour	like a ball; once property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	spin	participle		a ball not said here		a finger			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on finger=Trajectory
3	face	gerund	the half not said here		the Sun				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sun=Destination
4	have	present	the half				day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	have	present	the other half				night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:world:118-day-night-shadows-sundials.lesson:1.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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